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“Longtime WiMAX basher” Qualcomm is lightening up. This week the company confirmed its purchase of a WiMAX development start-up company.Unstrung.com reports that “longtime WiMAX basher” is evidently moving into an if-you-can’t-beat’em-join-em mode. According to the report, the company has purchased the 802.16e development work of TeleCis Wireless, Inc. for “an undisclosed sum.”

Unstrung quotes an unidentified QualComm spokesperson, saying “TeleCIS’s engineering resources were acquired for their mobile broadband system knowledge and System On a Chip design experience. Their knowledge and experience…

Samsung is making a “significant strategic investment” in Strix Systems, deepening its commitment to WiMAX in north America.The “significant strategic investment” that Samsung Ventures America announced it was making in Strix Systems this week deepens Samsung’s commitment to WiMAX technology and the wireless mesh market in the United States.

That commitment became clear last summer when Samsung emerged as one of the key players in Sprint Nextel’s plans to deploy mobile WiMAX nationwide. The announcement validated WiMAX which, despite its promise…